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by adhoc32 1538 days ago
easy solution: Don't click on trends, read only tweets from the people you follow.
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Back when I was actually using it, this wasn’t possible with the official app or website: if one of the people I followed retweeted or liked something, it would appear on my… what’s the terminology here? Timeline? View?

My memory is a bit hazy but I think I could hide retweets from specific people one at a time, but not everyone all at once, and not favourites at all.

Have these things changed?

Twitter has two kinds of experience: "Home" and "Latest". "Latest" is only people that you follow, their tweets and retweets in chronological order. "Home" is generated feed of tweets from people you follow, sometimes tweets that they just liked, trends and random bullshit. Needles to say that "Home" is Twitter's default mode and you'll get occasionally switched to it even if you choose "Latest".
Top right of the app or timeline : the "stars" icon. Switch from "top tweets" to "home timeline".

Like old.reddit, Twitter kind of hate it but realise that if they kill it they'll lose a lot of old users.